A lovely friend of mine had a birthday not to long ago. I made her a hair comb for the occasion. It's made out of clock hands with a large red glass jewel, then faux finished in a yummy distressed gold color. She admired something similar to it in my EJPcreations shop so I had to make a special one just for her. I made it so it would mimic a peacock feather, but in a very mechanical steampunk neo-Victorian way. And of course since I put so much time into making her gift I had to put equally as much time into the wrapping of it.

I made a lovely little card for her using the new Jenni Bowlin Photo Album stamp. A few weeks ago I posted a video using another one of these stamps in the series making a similar card on my youtube channel.

Here is a picture of the hair comb I made. I just love the way the finish came together. And the red and gold were actually the birthday girl's idea. I would have never thought to put those two colors together in a piece. But seeing them in person makes me wonder why I never thought of it before. They compliment each other nicely.

Above is a picture of the envelope I made for the card. I took a piece of vellum. Folded it into a little glassine bag shape (because I didn't have a glassine bag on hand). Then gave it a lovely pattern with a Hero Arts background stamp with script all over it. I used a colorbox pigment ink for this. Dye ink doesn't work well with vellum so you have to use pigment ink or alcohol ink. Then decorated it with a doily, some string, a few pearl headed pins, and made a little flag out of My Minds Eye paper. I just love how that color of ink looks on that vellum. And it has a little bit of sparkle to it in the light.

To the right is the inside of the card using some more My minds eye paper for the background. Then stamping the second stamp in the Jenni Bowlin set on a plain piece of pink paper, cutting it out, and taping it on top. Then decorate everything with liquid pearls (this is all in my video as well). Lastly, I made an envelope large enough to fit the hair comb in out of pink paper (see image below). It all came together very nicely and she was quite pleased.